Extracted from The Laurel Leader-Call (Laurel, MS)
Friday, April 3, 1987

WALTER L. MIDDLETON

Walter L. Middleton, 82, of 1927 N. First Ave., died April 2 at Jones County Community Hospital.

The funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Memory Chapel Funeral Home, with burial in Memorial Gardens Cemetery. The Rev. Harold Ishee will officiate.

He was retired from the Masonite Corp., Jones County Junior College and First Baptist Church of Ellisville. He was a member of Second Avenue Baptist Church.

He is survived by his widow, Beatrice Turner Middleton of Laurel; daughters, Mrs. L.G. Bishop Jr. of Lafayette, La., Mrs. Harold Jackson of San Diego, Calif., Mrs. Michael Adamo of Rosenberg, Tenn., and Mrs. John Overstreet of Clinton; a sister, Mrs. Ada M. Moore of Laurel; nine grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Thomas Middleton, Rufus Middleton, Dennis Middleton, Donnie Middleton, Charles Edward Turner and Harry Reddock.